Archive for the ‘technology’ Category

My Custom Firefox Search Plugins

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Have you ever wanted to add your own search engines to the search bar in Firefox? Well there are plugins that will do this for you, but I find that it's more fun to create them yourself. If you go to the folder C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins, you will find an ...

The Ultimate Home Audio System Software

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The problem: A software solution to play music on an outdoor, pool-side audio system. The solution: I've been thinking about this for a couple of days. My parents want to put in a few outdoor speakers near our pool, and I was brainstorming about what would be the best solution. One of ...

School Internet Filtering

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Although I'm not sure if internet filtering plays a good or bad role in our schools, I did find this comment in an MSDN blog to be totally true - that is, I definitely experienced this when I was in high school. The students are blowing through the filters as if ...

Text Editors (for Programming)

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I know vi and Emacs are the hardcore editors, but until I have the time to learn those, I'm stuck with mouse-based editors in Windows. Notepad++ - this is my current editor of choice - an amazing editor with syntax highlighting, and many other options. It also has the amazing TextFX ...